Hey guys, My question is what tv tuner card should I use. It must have the ability to have my cable and video game consoles hook up to it preferably through composite video (the game consoles that is). I was looking at the Hauppauge WinTV-PVR-150 MCE 1042 but from what I have read it has a 1-2 sec delay in the video. If someone has one and can either confirm it but that it can be fixed that would be great, but I'm looking for a card with out any delay because I want to use my ps2 and x-box on my PJ. I would like to keep the price below $100. Thanks for any help I just don't have the time to search for one right not. I hope this is the right spot to ask.

I'm using a Leadtek TV2000 XP Expert.

I've only connected it up to older game systems, but I was unable to detect any delay, using the bundled software application.

The delay on the PVR-150 can be removed but I would still not recommend it for gaming. If you are planning on doing a lot of TV recording, the PVR-150 is great. From what I have heard (no personal experience) the Prolink XCapture is a good card to get for gaming. The only thing is that if you want to watch and record tv on your computer, the Prolink card doesnt come with a tuner.

I hope that helps.

What do you look for when choosing a TV Tuner card?

For me, the Leadtek card had 3 important features:

1. It works, and the software doesn't do funky things to my PC, like the old Asus TV/FM card that I had. (Card was good, but the software kept flaking out my PC) It was a bonus to me that the bundles software also allows decent response time for gaming. I tried an experiment and tuned a real TV set to the same channel, and listened for audio synch, and there didn't seem to be any echo effect.

2. It's cheap!

3. It's readily available.

It depends on your wants.

If you want to record tv and still be able to use your computer then you will have to go with a hardware encoding tv tuner such as the pvr-150. This card will play games but I am not pleased with the picture quality. Gadgetsmith said he doesnt have this problem though.

If you just want to play games and be able to watch tv you can get as Supra suggested, the Leadtek TV2000 XP Expert.

There are even some cards that have 2 tuners on them so you can do things like record one show while watching another, or do PIP. I think the pvr-500 is an example.

I'm looking for cards on Newegg, and it doesn't list which cards have hardware encoding. Is there a specification hat hardware encoding is categorized under? Also, I know that some cards have a lag when playing games. Is there a spec. that you can look up for this delay?

I think the lag in games is caused by the card being hardware encoded though I am not sure if all software encoded cards though have 0 lag.

Thanks for the help. I dont plan on doing any recording because I allready have a dvr. Im gonna get a Leadtek. I found one for around $40 shipped on Froogle.